Tao Lin, mandala 4, 2014, graphite and ink on watercolor paper, 8 x 8". Courtesy the artist

Alt the Lonely People

Tao Lin meets midlife
Adam Wilson

Creation Myths

Revisiting Harold Rosenberg’s 1952 essay on the American Action Painters
Debra Bricker Balken

He Liked Having Enemies

The contested legacy of D. H. Lawrence
Daphne Merkin
Alexandra Brodsky. Photo: Lily Olsen

Raising the Bar

Bookforum talks with Alexandra Brodsky about her new book investigating how sexual violence is adjudicated
Moira Donegan
Assembly of the Voyager Golden Record, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, August 4, 1977. NASA/JPL-Caltech

Space Jams

What would music be like without human listeners?
Nathan Goldman
paper trail
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Photo: Stephanie Berger
Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s plans for a book series on Black artists and thinkers; “The Believer” magazine loses funding
fiction
Max (W. G. Sebald), © Reinbert Tabbert
An excerpt from Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald
Carole Angier
culture
Louise Bourgeois, The Destruction of the Father, 1974, latex, plaster, wood, fabric, red light, 7' 9 5/8“ x 11' 10 5/8” x 8' 1 7/8". © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Collection Glenstone Museum, Potoma
Reconsidering the phallic art of Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama
Sarah Boxer
politics
Balukhali Rohingya refugee camp, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, July 2019. U.N. Women/Allison Joyce/Flickr
Dismantling the logic underlying liberal immigration policies
Natasha Lennard
fiction
Judy Chicago, Study for Flaming Fist, 2006, watercolor pencil on paper, 12 x 9". © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Courtesy of the artist, Salon 94, New York, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, and Turner Carroll Gallery, Sa
Miriam Toews’s feel-good new novel
Jess Bergman
interviews
Marlowe Granados. Photo: May Truong.
Bookforum talks with Marlowe Granados about her new novel Happy Hour
Alex Quicho
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